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General Monthly for Month Commencing: Tuesday 01 July 2025

	Aries	Tuesday 01 July 2025	Mar 21 - Apr 19
By the time Uranus leaves your income sector and returns to your communication sector on 7th July, over the course of just eight months, every major planet will have shifted, something that will normally happen over the course of years if not decades and never before in such a short amount of time. This has created a huge period of change, but Uranus’ move is the last of the major changes. Neptune and Saturn will retrograde back out of Aries and back into a nostalgic and reflective part of your chart later in the year, but only for a few months and in a move that they have already made. Uranus will do the same, but this is what outer planets do as they transition and again, it will be back into your income sector, where it has been since 2019, so is familiar with. Before Uranus leaves on 7th July and while focused less on money and more on understanding what your valuable and priorities across all the currencies in your life, until she leaves on 5th July and as the planet of money, Venus is focused on the money and will be working to get the month off to a lucrative start. Helping with that is not only having Mars in your work sector, but with the Moon here until 2nd July. Meanwhile, this will see Venus return to your communication sector ahead of Uranus, with a chance to pick up from where the Sun, Jupiter and Mercury left off when they left last month. Until she leaves on 31st July, Venus’ focus will be on giving your heart and your relationships a voice, with the Moon’s return from 20th July to 22nd July helping with that. When Uranus returns, while this will add to the focus on communication, he is the planet of change, surprise, synchronicity and the unexpected and above all, this is going to be mentally stimulating. Where Venus is here for less than four weeks, apart from when he retrogrades back out for a few months in November, Uranus will be here until 2033. Meanwhile, while Mars is making this a busy month and especially on the job front, with the Sun always spending the first three weeks of July in your home and family sector and Jupiter in the first full month of a 12 month visit, there is a lot of focus on home, family and/or property matters. Also helping to keep things balanced is Mercury spending the whole month in a playful and creative part of your chart.

	Taurus	Tuesday 01 July 2025	Apr 20 - May 20
Because the Sun will always spend the first three weeks of July in your communication sector, this is a month when there is not only a lot of focus on communication, but this is a time of year when there is more mental clarity and you are likely to be mentally sharper, better able to think on your feet and where it is easier to keep the communication lines open. While the Sun will leave on 23rd July, so before Venus returns on 31st July to focus more on giving your heart and your relationships a voice and Mercury, the planet of communication left last month, this isn’t going to go off the boil and not just because you will have the Moon move through from 23rd July to 25th July. July is the first full month of Jupiter’s 12 month visit and what the Sun can do in a month, he will spend the next year doing, but in a larger and more expansive way. While Venus will only spend the very final hours of the month in your communication sector, compared to the months that she had spent locked into position due to a retrograde phase, that she will touch three different areas of your chart this month is a chance for her to spread her magic. Venus will begin the month in Gemini and until leaving on 5th July, over six weeks after your birthday month ended, she will be giving your heart a voice and a say in what you want from the coming year. With Uranus leaving on 7th July, this is helping to set a major course for the future. This will see Venus and Uranus return to your income sector within the space of 48 hours, Venus to begin what she will be working to make the most lucrative weeks of 2024 and Uranus to focus on your values and priorities across all the currencies in your life. Uranus is an outer planet, with his first visit to your income sector in eight decades the start of a journey that won’t end until 2033. Meanwhile, this is a month when a number of planets are starting to turn retrograde, with a chance to slow things down. Pluto is already in retrograde motion in your career sector, with Neptune turning retrograde in a nostalgic and reflective part of your chart on 5th July, Saturn on 13th July, Eris here on 22nd July and Chiron, the planet of healing on 31st July. At the same time, a retrograde turn on 18th July will keep Mercury in your home and family sector for the whole month.

	Gemini	Tuesday 01 July 2025	May 21 - Jun 21
By the time you move into the new month, it has been 10 days since the Sun left Gemini, bringing your birthday month to a close and three weeks since after 13 months Jupiter left. With Mercury having left last month as well, with your birthday month over and moving into the month with no planets in Gemini, you can be forgiven for thinking that when it comes to adding anything new to your intentions for the coming year or that you have explored all new possibilities, that the ship has already sailed. Instead, it has turned around and is not only heading back into port to pick up additional passengers, but with a need for a much bigger ship. Held back by a retrograde phase, Venus has been late to return to Gemini this year and not returning until 5th July, no ship is going to sail without her. It is Venus who can give your heart a voice and a say in what you want from the coming year, something that as you move into the new month you haven’t even begun to do. However, there is a VIP who has yet to return and on 7th July, two days after Venus returns, everything will change. This is when Uranus, the planet of change, surprise, synchronicity and the unexpected will return to Gemini, for what will not only be his first visit in eight decades, but he is the first outer planet to visit since he was last here. While the 13 months Jupiter spent ushering in a new 12 year Jupiter cycle of expansion was a big deal, a new eight decade Uranus cycle is something that is a once in a lifetime event and until leaving in 2033, will open your mind and your world to possibilities that at this point you can’t even imagine. Meanwhile, the Sun and Jupiter have moved on and while the solar spotlight is always on your income situation, matters and options in the first three weeks of July, this is the first full month of what has the potential to be your most lucrative and biggest year for income growth and expansion in over a decade. This comes with a support crew of minor but influential forces on the job and career fronts.

	Cancer	Tuesday 01 July 2025	Jun 22 - Jul 22
Whether you were born towards the end of June or in July, this is your birthday month and the start of your new solar year. With the Sun back in Cancer and back where it was when you were born, there is a sense of coming home and being back in your own skin. You were born under a Cancer Sun and with a Cancer Sun overhead, this is always a chance for a reset, to align with your personal truth and for new beginnings. This is when you get to set your intentions for the coming year. However, while the Sun will leave on 23rd July, that feeling isn’t going to leave you and won’t anytime soon, for you haven’t just moved into a new solar year, but thanks to Jupiter’s return last month, this is the first full month of a new 12 year Jupiter cycle of expansion. Mercury left Cancer late last month, leaving you with everything needed to keep your head in the game, think on your feet and the communication lines open, but without a need to overthink things. By the time the Sun leaves the one planet yet to return is Venus, who held back by a retrograde phase earlier in the year, will finally return on 31st July. As Venus’ mission when she returns each year is to give your heart a voice and a say in what you want from the coming year, don’t be surprised when your birthday month ends, that you still don’t know what that is. That is because Venus has yet to return. Your birthday month will always end with the Sun returning to your income sector, something that at the same time each year will see the solar spotlight shift onto your income situation, matters and options. Mercury, who returned late last month for what is normally a 14 to 15 day chance to use his smart head for money to get your head in the game and to think on your feet, should have been long gone by the time the Sun returns on 23rd July. Instead, a retrograde turn on 18th July will not only keep Mercury here all month but right through to September, but he is in good company. Over the course of the month four of the five planets in your career sector will turn retrograde and all are working in harmony with Mercury.

	Leo	Tuesday 01 July 2025	Jul 23 - Aug 22
While it is not until 23rd July that the Sun will return to Leo to begin your birthday month and new solar year, it is not only having Mercury here since late last month that is giving you a head start. Normally moving through in just 14 to 15 days, Mercury will give you just enough time to get your head in the game, ideas on the table and the communication lines open before he is gone again. However, a retrograde turn on 18th July will not only keep Mercury here for the whole of July, but right through to early September, so through your birthday month and beyond. However, when Mercury returned it had been less than 10 days since Mars not only left, but after his own retrograde turn had seen him spend five of the last seven months in Leo. To say that by the time the Sun returns to begin your birthday month and new solar year you already have a head start is an understatement. By the time the Moon returns from 25th July to 27th July as a New Moon, you will be more than ready to commit to your new solar year, the future and the journey ahead, even though it will only be 48 hours old by then. Meanwhile, there are some big changes this month, with Venus and Uranus not only leaving your career sector and returning to your friendship sector within 48 hours of each other, but for what will be a major shift. While Venus is only in your friendship sector until 31st July and she will be working to make these the most social and serendipitous weeks of the year, Uranus is here until 2033. While this will leave your career sector empty, as Uranus had been here since 2019, you have everything needed to keep this professional year on course, something that spending the whole of July in your income sector, Mars will continue to benefit from. Long before the Sun can return later next month, for the first time in two years, Mars returned last month to declare war on glass ceilings, roadblocks and barriers, whether real or imagined as he gives you the drive to fight for what you deserve.

	Virgo	Tuesday 01 July 2025	Aug 23 - Sep 22
Of all the major shifts that are setting 2025 apart as a year of major change, the last takes place this month and it has links to a major shift, back in November 2024. This is when Pluto, the first of the outer planets settled into his first visit to your work sector in nearly 250 years and where he will remain now until 2044. Since then, every major planet bar one has changed position and that includes Jupiter, who ended his 13 month visit to your career sector last month and Saturn, who in your relationship sector since March 2023, left and returned to your financial sector for the first time in three decades. This was less than a month that after 12 years in your relationship sector, Neptune did the same. The only outer planets still in the same position as you move into the new month is Uranus, who since 2019 has been in your sector of adventure, travel, learning and discovery. However, Uranus too is on the move and on 7th July will leave and return to your career sector, with a chance to take over from not only where Jupiter left off when he left last month, but the Sun and Mercury as well. This will put Uranus in harmony with Pluto in your work sector, who started it all back in November 2024. Apart from when he retrogrades back out in November for a few months, Uranus is in your career sector until 2033 and with Pluto in your work sector until 2044, this is the start of a partnership that will shape the coming years and especially professionally. Riding on Uranus’ coattails while helping to get the most out of this transition is Venus, who will also start the month in an adventurous part of your chart, before returning to your career sector 48 hours earlier on 5th July. Meanwhile, helping to get the most out of Jupiter’s first full month in your sector of friendship, teamwork and networking is that the Sun will always spend the first three weeks of July here, with the solar spotlight on your social life, friendship, team and networking at this time each year. This comes with built in support from the asteroid Juno, the queen of commitment in your communication sector and the North Node in your relationship sector that is locked into place and here to stay.

	Libra	Tuesday 01 July 2025	Sep 23 - Oct 23
Because the Sun will always spend the first three weeks of July in your career sector, the solar spotlight is always on your career and professional situation, matters and options and this can be one of the two main spikes in any professional year. It is in the early part of the year that work and job matters get a boost, followed by career matters and as there has been no major planets here in over a decade, often by the end of July, things are once again dialling back. That won’t be the case this year and won’t be for the next 12 months, for that once in a 12 year event has returned, which was Jupiter’s return to your career sector last month. Jupiter is that major planet that hadn’t been here in over a decade and now he is back to do it again. Jupiter had only been here 11 days when the Sun returned last month and while the solar spotlight has only been on your career and professional situation, matters and options for 10 days by the time you move into the new month, they have already aligned and there has already been a New Moon. This has already given what Jupiter will be working to make your biggest year for professional growth and expansion in over a decade a serious boost. The Moon will leave on 23rd July, but it is Venus’ return on 31st July that will bring the laws of attraction and the element of luck together. This will see the Sun join Mercury, who, due to a retrograde turn on 18th July will spend the whole of July in your sector of friendship, teamwork and networking. What makes the timing of the planet of communication’s retrograde turn significant is that four of the five planets in your relationship sector will all turn retrograde this month, Neptune on 5th July, Saturn on 13th July, Eris on 22nd July and Chiron on 31st July. By the time you move into the new month Mercury has already formed a friendly aspect to Saturn and Neptune, kicking off a powerful month for friendship and relationship building while at the same time together opening the doors to the past. Meanwhile, held back by a retrograde phase, Mars finally returned to your financial sector last month and not leaving until early August, will spend the whole month fuelling your financial passions and fighting spirit.

	Scorpio	Tuesday 01 July 2025	Oct 24 - Nov 21
The word that springs to mind to describe this month is balance. It was late last month that Mercury returned for what is normally a 14 to 15 day visit to your career sector, with a chance to work smarter, get your head in the game, think on your feet and the communication lines open ahead of the Sun’s return on 23rd July. Mercury should be long gone by then but instead, a retrograde turn on 18th July will not only keep him here all month but closely aligned with five planets in your work sector, four of which will also turn retrograde this month. By the time you move into the new month Mercury has already formed a friendly aspect to Saturn and Neptune, who will be the first to turn retrograde. It begins with Neptune’s retrograde turn on 5th July and continues with Saturn’s retrograde turn on 13th July, Eris on 22nd July and Chiron on 31st July. By the end of the month, the Sun will be in your career sector and five of the six planets in your two professional houses will be in retrograde motion, working as a team to exploit the past, second chances and untapped job and professional potential. However, helping to keep things balanced and helping to ensure that life doesn’t become all work and no play, is not just having the Sun in your sector of adventure, travel, learning and discovery until 23rd July, but Jupiter in the first full month of what will be a 12 month visit. Meanwhile, there is change in the air on the relationship and financial fronts, with Venus and Uranus shifting their focus from one to the other within the space of just 48 hours. It begins on 5th July, when Venus leaves your relationship sector and returns to your financial sector, swapping out her planet of love for her planet of money hat. Venus will leave you with a better sense of what you want from your relationships, while until leaving your financial sector on 31st July, will spend less than four weeks fuelling your financial confidence, updating your financial desires and expectations and on working to turn those desires into reality. Uranus, on the other hand, returns to begin a journey that won’t end until 2033 and with it a chance to update your whole relationship with money.

	Sagittarius	Tuesday 01 July 2025	Nov 22 - Dec 21
Because the Sun will always spend the first three weeks of July in your financial sector, the solar spotlight is always on your financial situation and money matters at this time of year. However, not only did Mercury leave you with the smart head for money needed to keep your head in the game, think on your feet and to make smart choices, decisions and plans when he left late last month, but Jupiter returned last month to spend the next year here. The Sun will leave on 23rd July, but this is just the first full month of what Jupiter will be working to make the luckiest and biggest year for financial growth and expansion in over a decade. The real magic will start to happen when Venus returns on 31st July, bringing the planets of money and luck together but also the laws of attraction and the element of luck. Until then, Venus will spend the majority of the month with her planet of love hat on, with her return to your relationship sector from 5th July to 31st July helping to usher in a whole new era. By the time you move into the new month, it has only been 10 days since the Sun left your career sector and three weeks since after 13 months Jupiter left. While there are no planets in your relationship sector as you move into the new month, there has been more than enough focus on your relationships. While Venus’ return will be good news for all your relationships, it is Uranus’ return on 7th July that will usher in a whole new chapter. Apart from when he retrogrades back out for a few months in November, Uranus is here until 2033 and throughout that time will be working closely with Pluto in your communication sector. While Venus will be working to make the weeks she is here special, over the next eight years, Uranus will work to bring a whole new level of authenticity to your relationships. Until then, Venus and Uranus start the month in your work sector, where they are tying up loose ends of the job front, just as Mars is firing things up on the career front and will do for the whole month.

	Capricorn	Tuesday 01 July 2025	Dec 22 - Jan 19
While the Sun will always spend the first three weeks of July in your relationship sector and the solar spotlight is always on your relationships at this time of year, with some major differences this time. The first is that for the first time in 16 years, there are no planets in Capricorn for the Sun or any of the planets moving through your relationship sector this year to clash with. This means a noticeable decrease in the potential for personal and/or relationship tension that until now has been more likely at this time of year. While the Moon’s return to Capricorn from 9th July to 12th July will see the Sun and Moon clash to create a Full Moon on 11th July, this is the only time that there will be a clash between your own and your relationship needs. This is a Full Moon that always has and always will fall at some point during the Sun’s month long visit to your relationship sector and is key to understanding what you want from your relationships and what they need from you. The other big difference is that the Sun is not on his own, with Jupiter in the first full month of what will be a 12 month visit and the start of your most important relationship year in over a decade. However, the real magic is likely to begin after the Sun leaves on 23rd July, the point when the focus often shifts off your relationships. Not this year, with Jupiter not only here until June 2026 but Venus’ return on 31st July bringing the planets of love and luck together. Meanwhile, as the Sun returns to your financial sector, something that at this time each year will always turn the solar spotlight onto your financial situation and money matters, it will be to find that you already have a head start. Not only has Mercury been here since late last month, giving you the smart head for money needed to keep your head in the game and to think on your feet, but when he returned last month, it had been less than two weeks since Mars left, ending his longest visit in eight decades. Mars had spent five of the previous seven months fuelling your financial passions and fighting spirit, with Mercury having ushered in a smarter and more practical phase. Meanwhile, Venus and Uranus will be working to put some guardrails in place before first on 5th July, Venus will leave and return to your busy work sector, then Uranus two days later on 7th July.

	Aquarius	Tuesday 01 July 2025	Jan 20 - Feb 18
As much as this could be a busy month, either at work or with whatever it is that keeps you busy and occupies your time, this will be balanced by a powering up of the playful and creative side of life’s fence or will be by the end of the first week. Because the Sun will always spend the first three weeks of July in your work sector, a busy, industrious and task focused part of your chart, this can be a busy time of year. However, with the solar spotlight on your work situation, job matters and options, this is something that you have a clear read on. While Mercury left late last month, not before leaving you with everything needed to keep working smarter, with your head in the game, ideas on the table and the communication lines open. Because Mercury has already left and held back by a retrograde phase earlier in the year Venus won’t return until 31st July, this is when the pace should dial back. Instead, Jupiter’s return last month means that this is just the first full month of what will be your biggest year for job growth and expansion in over a decade. As the Sun, Mercury and Jupiter all left a fun, playful, romantic and creatively charged part of your chart last month and as you move into the new month there is no planetary activity here, while the scales have shifted to the other side of life’s fence, help is on the way. It begins with Venus’ return on 5th July and while only here until 31st July, as the planet of love and the planet that rules through the heart, she will be working to make these the most fun and romantically charged weeks of the year. However, helping to not only keep the scales between work and play balanced but locked into place, is Uranus’ return to a playful and creative part of your chart on 7th July. Unlike Venus, who is here for less than four weeks, apart from when in November he retrogrades back out for a few months, Uranus will be here until 2033. Meanwhile, when the Sun returns to your relationship sector on 23rd July it will be to find that Mercury, who had returned at the end of last month for what is normally a 14 to 15 day visit is not only still here, but a retrograde turn on 18th July will keep the planet of communication here until September.

	Pisces	Tuesday 01 July 2025	Feb 19 - Mar 20
As much as the stars are positioned this month in a way that favours a balance between work and play, there is more weight on the playful and creative side of life’s fence. This is something that whether you are aware of it or not, you have been preparing for since as far back as September 2024. This is when Mars, the planet of passion and the warrior planet of the cosmos returned for what is normally a six week visit to a playful and creative part of your chart. Mars did eventually leave and return to your busy work sector, but not until two months later and then, in the New Year came back to spend another three months here. Then, in April Mars once again left a playful and creative part of your chart and returned to your busy work sector, exactly as he had done six months earlier. By the time Mars left your work sector last month, he had spent nine months going backwards and forwards between the most playful and creative part of your chart and the busiest, something that has prepared you for a month that is a balance between the two. Mars could never be in both places at the same time and instead swung from one side of life’s fence to the other. However, while a retrograde phase is keeping Mercury in your busy work sector for the whole of July and on 23rd July the Sun will leave a playful and creative part of your chart and join him there, Jupiter will stay on. This is just the first full month of what Jupiter is working to make your luckiest year for love, matters of the heart and all things fun, playful, romantic and creative in over a decade. A month where the busy and playful sides of life’s fence are both powered up is something that you have spent nine months preparing for. Meanwhile, Venus is sticking close to Uranus and especially in the early part of the month, when within the space of 48 hours, first Venus on 5th July and then Jupiter on 7th July will leave your communication sector and return to focus on home, family and/or property matters. For Venus, she will do this once a year, but for Uranus this is the start of a major new chapter that won’t run its course until 2033.